Receiving in the league is the big goal of Carl Zeiss Jena. Can it be done? The FCC team is recorded and fit. The trainer looks at the season accordingly.
In the last test, the Bundesliga women from Carl Zeiss Jena got a lot of self-confidence again. A week before the start of the season and against the self-proclaimed top 6 team RB Leipzig they played FCC women 1: 1.
Coach Kästner: “Look positively towards the season”
Coach Florian Kästner was satisfied after the duel: “We can look positively towards the season,” said the 26-year-old, signaling how you want to keep the class again this year: “We have not allowed little against Leipzig and had good changing moments.” For this, the coach and his team worked primarily on the condition. “We are fit. We were already fit last year and worked on it again,” said Kästner.
Coordinated team
In addition, the Jena women can rely on a well -coordinated team, the change was limited. There are eight new additions in the 27-member squad. There is little prominence among them, which does not give the financial possibilities of the Thuringian women. With Goalkeeper Julia Kassen A player of Liga competition joined Freiburg to the FCC. Attacker Isabella Jaron comes from Austria’s highest league, she was loaned last season.
Young players in particular were fetched, the average age of the seven new ones is 21.5 years and is therefore significantly below the average of the seven departures (23.9 years). FCC coach Kästner trains the youngest team in the league (22.8 years).
And this not only got a lot of self -confidence in the friendly against RB: the Thuringians also defeated the climber Hamburger SV and had to give up almost 2: 3 against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Cruciate ligament tear at Gaißer
However, the Jenaers did not get through the summer without a negative report: midfielder Fiona Gaißer suffered a cruciate ligament tear in the friendly against Hamburger SV and lacked several months.
Gaißer (left) was seriously injured.
Severe Opening program
At the start of the season, the FCC women receive the ambitious team from Hoffenheim on Monday (September 8, 2025, from 6 p.m. in the live ticker). Even after that, it will not be easier to wait for duels against Wolfsburg, Bavaria, the strong promoted Union Berlin or Frankfurt. “We have a difficult program with English weeks,” Kästner looks ahead: “The games will only come on our eye level from the 6th matchday. Then we have to take points with us.” Then it goes against Nuremberg and promoted Hamburger SV.
Dirk Hofmeister
